Reply #7: But the resistance isn't winning [View All]

[enigma000]

Sure they are blowing up cars, assassinating public officials, killing coalition soldiers, suicide bombing childing but all they are accomplishing is isolating the Sunni Arab community from national political power.

I know having foreign soldiers occupying Iraqi (to say nothing of the how poorly managed the occupation has been) has wounded the pride of the Iraqis and caused much anti-American feelings but the Kurds and Shiites have subdued this, and the hostility toward each other, to contest elections, form a government and write a constitution. Why can't the Sunni play nice?

The Sunni must participate in the Constitutional process or they will wind up partitioned away from Iraq's oil reserves, in poverty, and isolated forever. Possibly even being, as is pointed out, "ethnically cleansed". It's not Koolaid, it's worse, it's the bitter taste of reality.